You didn't say what you are making. If you wanted to make Baguettes de Tradition from Hamelman's Bread book, I think you can do that by hand without a machine without much trouble - though you might break it into a few batches. Here is a link to a video of Hamelman making baguettes de tradition.http://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2013/04/30/no-knead-chewy-sandwich-rolls-one-good-turn-deserves-another/ In the recipe at the bottom of the page they have added olive oil and dry milk to make a softer bread. At the very bottom of the page they tell you to delete the olive oil and dry milk, and increase the water if you want to make baguettes. Also, while the blog page talks about lifting the dough over onto itself 30 times, I made the baguettes and did a very simple letter fold and then tucked the ends over, and just did that 3 times, spaced 20 minutes apart, and the dough came out fine.